Ulysses Owen Jnr Big Band: Soul Conversations

Summer Camargo | Ulysses Owen Jnr | Takeshi Ohbayashi | Benny Benack III | Alexa Tarantino | Yashushi Nakamura | Michael Dease | Eric Miller | Chris Glassman | Diego Riviera

Ulysses Owen's impressive sideman credits range from Terence Blanchard to Kurt Elling, with whom he won a 2010 Grammy for...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2021

Various Artists: Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972)

John Surman | Colin Bates | Alan Skidmore | Don Rendell | Dick Morrissey | Stan Tracey | Mike Taylor | Ken Wheeler | Michael Garrick | New Jazz Orchestra

This two CD or double gatefold LP set takes up where Universal's Impressed Repressed series left off in 2004-5. That...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol: An Elegant Ritual

James Heazlewood-Dale | George Lernis | Mehmet Ali Sanlikol

The kind of cliches that get rolled out about recordings that speak about ‘a fusion between East and West’ don't...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

Tom Ollendorff: A Song For You

Marc Michel | Conor Chaplin | Tom Ollendorff

When Jordi Pujol, the owner of the Barcelona-based Fresh Sound New Talent (FSNT) label, releases a debut album you sit...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

Rickey Kelly: Limited Stops Only

Sherman Ferguson | James Leary III | Dadisi Komolafe | Rickey Kelly | David E Tillman

If ever there was an album aptly titled, it is surely this: Kelly's musical bus (see the cover image) moves...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2021

June Christy: Five Classic Albums (Second Set)

Monty Budwig | Joe Castro | Mel Lewis | Red Mitchell | Frank Flynn | Shelly Manne | Ronny Lang | Jim Hall | Joe Mondragon | Don Fagerquist

June Christy is a somewhat overlooked figure nowadays, but this first-rate collection from Avid, showcasing her elegant, perfectly-pitched and dynamically...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2021

Wes Montgomery: A Day In The Life

Joe Soldo | Lewis Eley | Harry Urbont | Emanuel Vardi | Leo Kruczek | Julius Brand | Herbie Hancock | Charles McCracken | Harry Glickman | Wes Montgomery

‘But is it jazz?’ at first seems a bizarre question to ask about an album that includes the mighty Wes,...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2021

Alex Sipiagin: Slipstream

Rudy Royston | Art Hirahara | Boris Kozlov | Alex Sipiagin

Here's an album with an international flavour, the Russian-born Sipiagin and Kozlov, both now 53 and each domiciled in New...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021

Sam Pilnick Nonet: The Adler Suite

Saxophonist-composer Pilnick's programmatic suite for large ensemble is inspired by the exhibits in Chicago's Adler Planetarium but fails to hit...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

Ranny Sinclair: Another Autumn

Dave Brubeck | Ranny Sinclair | Teo Macero

At a time when you can buy or stream practically all music ever recorded – no matter how impossibly rare...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2021